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Tony Award nominations: 'Motown: The Musical' scores multiple nods
NEW YORK (AP) - The Cyndi Lauper-scored 'Kinky Boots' has earned a leading 13Tony Award nominations, with the British import "Matilda: The Musical" close behind with 12. Tom Hanks, making his Broadway debut, earned a nod as leading man in a play...
NEW YORK (AP) — The Cyndi Lauper-scored "Kinky Boots" has earned a leading 13 Tony Award nominations, with the British import "Matilda: The Musical" close behind with 12. Tom Hanks, making his Broadway debut, earned a nod as leading man in a play.
"Kinky Boots" is based on the 2005 British movie about a real-life shoe factory that struggles until it finds new life in fetish footwear. Lauper's songs and a story by Harvey Fierstein have made it a crowd-pleaser.
"I walked my dog early this morning so I'd be back in time to listen to the announcement. It's so great. It's so great. I'm done crying a little bit. But I'm still thrilled and a little stunned," Lauper said.
The haul did not match the record number of nominations for a musical, which is 15, set by "The Producers" in 2001 and "Billy Elliot" in 2009. "The Book of Mormon" nabbed 14 Tony nods in 2011.
"Lucky Guy," Nora Ephron's portrait of Mike McAlary, a gutsy New York City newspaper columnist who won a Pulitzer Prize for exposing that a Haitian immigrant had been sodomized by police officers in 1997, got six nominations, including one for Hanks as McAlary.
"This makes me both giddy and nervous, and it could not be more special," Hanks said. "Before this began, I thought I knew what it would be like. "But you can't imagine what it is. There's the muscle and the brain, but also the spirit and the heart. And it's fun, if fun also incorporates a huge amount of fear."
Courtney B. Vance earned a best featured actor nomination playing an editor in "Lucky Guy." He and Hanks were among the few actors in the production to work with Ephron on it before her death last year. "She'd be ecstatic. She'd be grinning ear to ear. And she is, right now."
In addition to Hanks, the leading actor in a play nominees are Nathan Lane for "The Nance," Tracy Letts from "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?", David Hyde Pierce from "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike" and Tom Sturridge from "Orphans."
"Matilda: The Musical" is a witty musical adaptation of the novel by Roald Dahl and is true to his bleak vision of childhood as a savage battleground.
Both "Kinky Boots" and "Matilda" will compete for the best musical prize with the acrobatic "Bring It On: The Musical" and "A Christmas Story, The Musical," adapted from the beloved holiday movie.
Among the flurry of nominations, "Kinky Boots" also earned Fierstein a nod for best book, David Rockwell got one for sets, Jerry Mitchell for both directing and for choreography, and nominations for its two leading men, Billy Porter and Stark Sands. Annaleigh Ashford earned a featured rolenomination.
"Matilda" earned nominations for choreography, Matthew Warchus' directing, Chris Nightingale's orchestrations, best book by Dennis Kelly, Tim Minchin for lyrics and songs, and Bertie Carvel for best leading role in a musical.
Carvel, who played the same evil headmistress role in London, said he is enjoying his time in New York, although he did admit to being nervous about how Americans would react. "I feel like I've landed on happy shores," he said. "The show is in great shape. People are loving it."
For his part, Minchin wasn't going to get crazy following the nomination: "I'm going to have a coffee with my agent today. That's about as crazy as I'm going to get. We're a low-key bunch of people. We all just get on with it," he said.
Some big names snubbed this year were Jessica Chastain, Al Pacino, Alec Baldwin, Katie Holmes, Bette Midler, Sigourney Weaver, Paul Rudd and Scarlett Johansson. Emilia Clarke of HBO's "Game of Thrones" didn't get a nomination for "Breakfast at Tiffany's," but the show came up empty Tuesday.
The best musical revival candidates are "Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella," "Annie," "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" and "Pippin," which nabbed 10 nominations.
Patina Miller, last on Broadway as the heroine of "Sister Act," stepped into the Ben Vereen role of Leading Player in "Pippin" and earned her second straight nomination.
The first time, she said, "I was so nervous about saying and doing the right things. This time, I've enjoyed it, I've been given a great opportunity and I want to keep enjoying it. Not a lot of people get to experience something like this."
The producers of "Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella" saw both their Cinderella — Laura Osnes — and her prince — Santino Fontana — nominated for leading roles in a musical.
"I'm floating on air! I think I am over the tears now," said Osnes. "I started crying when Santino's name was called. So I was already crying when they called mine. I am just so thrilled, so excited."
Kenneth Posner had a great morning. The lighting designer got three nominations — for "Kinky Boots," "Pippin" and "Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella." He will face off against Hugh Vanstone, the lighting designer for "Matilda: The Musical."
The best play nominees are Richard Greenberg's "The Assembled Parties," Ephron's "Lucky Guy," Colm Toibin's "The Testament of Mary" and Christopher Durang's "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike."
Durang's play earned Billy Magnussen a best featured actor nomination. He plays a somewhat dim boy toy in the play about a pair of depressive middle-aged siblings whose movie-star sister threatens to upend their quiet life.
Asked how he felt, Magnussen purred: "Like warm buttah." It's his second Broadway part and Magnussen had to get off the phone. When he returned, he said: "That was my mom. She was saying, 'What am I going to wear?'"
The revival of Clifford Odets' "Golden Boy," a play about a young man torn between his natural talent as a violinist and the fast money and fame of being a boxer, earned eight nominations, the most for any play.
Richard Greenberg's "The Assembled Parties," a New York City drama concerning the power of familial bonds, earned three nominations, including ones for Judith Light, scenic design and best play.
"It's been so luxuriously treated by this production," the playwright said. It was given such care and attention. I think you only get something that unblemished once. And so I'm relishing it."
Playwright Douglas Carter Beane earned a best book nomination for the lush, big musical "Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella," but not for his more intimate play "The Nance," although it earned five nods. A veteran, he rolled with it Tuesday morning.
"You just have to really enjoy it when you get nominated and you have to just not care when you're not," he said. "It's great to show I'm not just this one thing. Just as actors like to show off their versatility, writers like to do it, too."
The hit-stuffed "Motown: The Musical," about Motown Records under founder Berry Gordy, earned four nominations, including Valisia LeKae as Diana Ross and Charl Brown as Smokey Robinson.
The best actress in a leading role in a play includes Laurie Metcalf of "The Other Place," Amy Morton in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" Kristine Nielsen of "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike," Holland Taylor in her one-woman show, "Ann," and Cicely Tyson in "The Trip to Bountiful." With such high talent, squeezed out were Fiona Shaw of "The Testament of Mary" and Jessica Hecht in "The Assembled Parties."
Although the revival of Rupert Holmes' musical "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" has closed, it earned five nominations, including one for Stephanie J. Block, who played a pompous actress. "It felt really great to do that and have nobody complain," Block joked. "I'm so pleased that all the committees are remembering 'Drood' because it really was such a special show."
The nominations were announced Tuesday in a televised event co-hosted by Tony winner Sutton Foster and "Modern Family" star Jesse Tyler Ferguson. The awards will be broadcast on CBS from Radio City Music Hall on June 9.
Scott Ellis, who directed "Drood," watched the announcement live on his couch with his 3½-year old twins, Parker and Charlotte.
"I said, 'You may hear daddy's name, you may not.' And they said, 'Daddy, that's your name!' And then they got up and started playing. They were done. And that's all the perspective I needed."
AP Entertainment Writer Frazier Moore and AP National Writer Jocelyn Noveck contributed to this report.
Copyright 2013 The Associated Press.


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The contest ran through the month of December 2010.
This is in front of the Asian Art Museum, and I had forgotten all about the timer. I'm not very good at that, I get easily distracted.
Looks like I'm picking my nose, perhaps. But I'm removing my shades, I ran into a friend. Read on, and check out all the entries here: candycranks.com/...
Submission to CandyCranks -- DEC 2010

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From January 2008 the Musée Guimet of France is holding an exhibition of the masterpieces of Ganges from the collections of the Bangladesh museums for the first time outside of Bangladesh. From the museum catalogue:
"Bangladesh possesses an immensely important cultural heritage, this arising from the fact that the eastern half of Bengal has been one of the cultural richest regions of the Indian world; a vision far from the catastrophic one that the western world often tends to favour. The region is associated with the art of the Pala and Sena dynasties (8th – 13th century)....and goes back to the Maurya and Sunga periods (3rd – 1st century BC)....Bangladesh also harbours the oldest Buddhist monastery of the Indian world, Paharpur, which has now been listed on the UNESCO's list of protected monuments."
Black and Grey blog has more on the backgrounds of the archeological artifacts in question. (Images courtesy: Black and Grey)
This exhibition was scheduled to start from October, 2007 but was delayed due to a lot of drama. Bonbibi at Unheard Voices reported on the first of October, 2007:
"The conditional has crept in because the High Court has issued a two-month stay order on the travel of the 189 art pieces following a writ petition by a group of Bangladeshis. They raised concern over the legality of the contract and filed a public litigation case in the High Court that ordered to stop sending the exhibits. The litigants feared that the precious items to be sent to the Paris museum might not be returned to Bangladesh ('The New Nation' 27th Sept 2007)."Unheard Voices later reported of an unholy alliance that stopped the archeological artifacts from sending:
"…a (second) case was filed before the District Court, again by 'art lovers' including former DGs of Archaeology etc. Interestingly, the case was filed (according to newspaper report) against the French Ambassador and others. The Court issued a show cause order, but did not stop the artifacts from going.Unheard Voices blog also posted the protests in detail which raised concerns over the security of the artifacts during shipping and the financial discrepancies (The total value of insurance is Euro 400,000 whereas only a major artifact is said to be worth more than Euro 800,000).
At this point, with no more puppets to join the dance, the DGFI's (Military Intelligence) fist finally came out from beneath the glove. It directly intervened at the airport to stop the artifacts from going on the ground that an 'inquiry' is to be held."
The Bangladeshi Blogosphere was divided right from the start on the issue. Rumi of In The Middle Of No Where answered the allegations of the skeptics with a question and answer style and commented if a solution is reached sooner than later then:
"The Exhibition will go ahead. And thousands of people will be able to learn about Bangladeshi art architecture and our heritage and to understand the depth and diversity of our culture – in a contrast to the negative images portrayed through the news every day."
On 1st of December 2007 the first assignment of the archeological artifacts was flown out of Bangladesh to France rather controversially – in the middle of the night in suspicious crates under police guards evading protesters and journalists. In order to camouflage the mission, the authorities utilised vehicles bearing 'Save The Children Cyclone' and 'USAID Sidr Emergency Relief' signs.
Renowned photo journalist Shahidul Alam did an excellent piece of investigative citizen journalism. In this post he reports with photos portraying the first consignment being sent to France. He also points to the fact that the Musée Guimet in Paris incidentally had been alleged to hold previous stolen artifacts from Bangladesh and there are similar allegations that stolen objects from China and the rest of Asia are held by the Guimet.
He recently visited the Musée Guimet in Paris but had been denied access to both the director of Guimet Jean-Francois Jarriage and the curator of the show Vincent Lefevre, for the answers to his questions.
Unheard Voices Blog has a brilliant post called "Tintin in Bengal or Musée Guimet controversy" detailing the whole episode with a lots of links to other blogs, pro-contra views, protests, collected media reports, explanations from the French embassy and the organizers and a lot of debate on this issue.
Shahidul Alam also tried to find the missing piece of the jigsaw:
"Guimet is a respected museum, and there has been natural interest in a show that should be very special. Why then such resistance from art lovers of Bangladesh? Surely art is to be appreciated?And at last the inevitable had happened. Unheard Voices Blog reports:
Why on the other hand, the secrecy? The organisers should be taking credit for arranging such an event and not trying to sneak away under police protection. If there is nothing to cover up, why the covert operation?
The emotions are high. I've seen people weeping because something very special to them has been taken away. I have seen people angry because they feel violated. I have seen people frustrated, because they feel helpless against the power of the establishment."
"At approximately 2 am on Dec 22, one of the 13 crates in the 2nd shipment of artifacts to Musée Guimet in Paris vanished from the tarmac of ZIA International Airport, Dhaka.Shahidul Alam, who reported about the protests to stop the second shipment is furious:
Crate 5 contained Statue of Visnu (terracota, black) & Bust of (Hindu Lord) Visnu. High resale value on international underground art market as they are unique pieces."
Their fear of items being stolen, or not being returned, was considered preposterous. News of the missing crate, and the priceless statues it contained, had been suppressed, but the information leaked out. Could the guarantors please explain?Please stay tuned for the next episode of this thriller.


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As fun as their matchup was, it's difficult to assess either player's ability when neither team showed much interest in defending.
LeBron and Durant have both worked hard to improve their defense, and that deserves celebration. It's a huge reason their teams reached the NBA Finals and conference finals, respectively. And fans want those higher stakes.
Tuesday, none of that mattered. Mostly, the game was about what NBA players could do against less-than-NBA defenses.
But it was also about what NBA players can do in general — dazzle and delight. They did both on this night.
Dunks and crossovers were cheered. Misses and turnovers were forgiven.
Fans forgave the slow entrance to the arena, too. The show was worth it.
While stuck in line, one man joked (I think) that he had delayed his mortgage payment to buy a ticket for the game.
Without question, the NBA still has a product fans want to pay for.
Dan Feldman writes and edits the TrueHoop Network blog PistonPowered.


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Almost 25 years ago a professor at Indiana U showed me the following problem:
given a map $\mathbb{Z}^2\rightarrow\mathbb{R}$ such that the sum inside every square (parallel to the axes) is $\leq1$ in absolute value, prove that the sum inside every rectangle (parallel to axes) is $\leq4$ in absolute value.
It's fun and not too hard to prove. I believe that at the time I was able to show that the upper limit can be improved to 3.975 - but that was a lot harder and I can't say now that this is for sure the case. Also, with a computer search (old TRS 80) I produced an example containing a rectangle of area $3\frac{1}{3}$.
These are some of the questions that come to mind:
- can the upper limit of 4 (or 3.975?) be improved?
- can the lower limit of $3\frac{1}{3}$ be improved?
- any proof/conjecture about the optimal limit?
- do the results extend to maps $\mathbb{R}^2\rightarrow\mathbb{R}$, provided they are "nice" enough?
- are any other generalizations of this problem possible (eg. different tilings of the plane or of other manifolds, or higher dimensions)?
Update 1 (updated 7th March 2010). See answers and comments below for examples achieving ratios as high as 181/48 = 3.7708333...!
Update 2. Here is a sketch of the proof that 4 is an upper limit. A limit of 254/67=3.79104477... is now known (see answers below), but the proof for that needs to be seeded with at least some known limit.
Given a rectangle R of size AxB, with A < B, call it "thin" if $B\geq2A$ or "fat" if $B\leq2A$ (the case B=2A is irrelevant as it is the union of 2 squares). One can draw the 4 squares on the sides of R, either facing outwards (size of envelope = (2B+A)x(2A+B)), or inwards (some spilling out on the opposite sides, size of envelope = (2B-A)xB) - call these the "big-envelope" and the "small-envelope".
Assume that R has sum 4+$\epsilon$ and that every square has sum between -1 and 1. We have 3 cases, all easy exercises to work out:
(1) for any R, the fat (2A+B)x(2B+A) big-envelope will have sum $\leq-4-3\epsilon$.
(2) for a fat R, a (2A-B)x(2B-A) sub-rectangle of the small-envelope will have sum $\leq-4-3\epsilon$;
(3) for a thin R, a thin (B-2A)x(2B-A) sub-rectangle of the small-envelope, will have sum $\geq4+3\epsilon$;
Applying any of (1)+(2), (2)+(1) or (3)+(3) produces a 3Ax3B rectangle with sum $\geq4+9\epsilon$. Iterating n times produces a $3^{n}A \times 3^{n}B$ rectangle with sum $4+9^{n}\epsilon$. Such rectangle is made of no more than AxB squares (each of size $3^{n} \times 3^{n}$) and therefore, for large enough n, one of the squares will have sum >1. $\square$
Reformulation . Given an abelian group G and a map
f: GxGxGxG -> $\mathbb{R}$ such that
1) -1<=f(a,b,c,d)<=1 if d*a=c*b (boundedness of squares),
2) f(a,b,c,d)+f(c,b,e,d)=f(a,b,e,d) for all a, b, c, d, e in G (horizontal additivity of rectangles),
3) f(a,b,c,d)+f(a,d,c,e)=f(a,b,c,e) for all a, b, c, d, e in G (vertical additivity of rectangles),
can we find a universal best bound b(G) such that -b(G) <= f <= b(G)?
All the previous work on this question amounts to the result: 181/48 <= b($\mathbb{Z}$) <= b($\mathbb{Z}x\mathbb{Z}$) <= 254/67
For non-abelian groups one could perhaps generalize the notion of "square" by lifting it from G/[G,G].


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Laws, Regulations and Annotations
Business Taxes Law Guide – Revision 2024
Sales And Use Tax Law
Revenue and Taxation Code
Division 2. Other Taxes
Part 1. Sales and Use Taxes
Chapter 4. Exemptions
Article 1. General Exemptions
Section 6355
6355. Monetized bullion. [Repealed by Stats. 1993, Ch. 977, in effect October 11, 1993.]
6355. Monetized, nonmonetized bullion, and numismatic coins. (a) There are exempted from the taxes imposed by this part the gross receipts from the sale in bulk of monetized bullion, nonmonetized gold or silver bullion, and numismatic coins that are substantially equivalent to transactions in securities or commodities through a national securities or commodities exchange and the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of monetized bullion, nonmonetized gold or silver bullion, and numismatic coins so sold.
(b) (1) A sale in bulk, for purposes of this section, shall be deemed to have occurred if the amount of monetized bullion, nonmonetized gold or silver bullion, and numismatic coins sold in the transaction totals, in market value, the sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000) or more, or its equivalent.
(2) The board shall adjust the one thousand dollar ($1,000) amount specified in paragraph (1) as follows:
(A) On or before September 1, 1994, and on or before each October 1 of each year thereafter, the board shall multiply the amount applicable for the current calendar year by the inflation factor adjustment determined by the Franchise Tax Board pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 17041, the resulting amount to be the applicable amount for the succeeding calendar year. The applicable amount shall be operative as an adjustment of the amount specified in paragraph (1) only when the applicable amount computed is equal to or exceeds a new operative threshold, as defined in subparagraph (C).
(B) When the applicable amount equals or exceeds an operative threshold specified in subparagraph (C), the resulting applicable amount, rounded to the nearest multiple of five hundred dollars ($500), shall be operative for purposes of paragraph (1) beginning January 1 of the succeeding calendar year.
(C) For purposes of this paragraph, "operative threshold" means an amount that exceeds by a least five hundred dollars ($500), the greater of either the amount specified in paragraph (1) or the amount computed pursuant to subparagraphs (A) and (B) as the operative adjustment to the amount specified in paragraph (1).
(c) "Monetized bullion," for purposes of this section, means coins or other forms of money manufactured of gold, silver, or other metal and heretofore, now, or hereafter used as a medium of exchange under the laws of this state, the United States, or any foreign nation. "Monetized bullion," for purposes of this section, also means gold medallions struck under authority of the American Arts Gold Medallion Act (Title IV of Public Law 95-630).
(d) A sale of monetized bullion, nonmonetized gold or silver bullion, or numismatic coins, for purposes of this section, shall be deemed to be substantially equivalent to a transaction in securities or commodities through a national securities or commodities exchange, if the sale is by or through a person registered pursuant to the Commodity Exchange Act (7 U.S.C. Sec. 1 et seq.) or not required to be registered under the Commodity Exchange Act.
History—Added by Stats. 1973, Ch. 1019, operative January 1, 1974. Stats. 1980, Ch. 849, operative January 1, 1980, substituted the part of (d) following "through a person" for former wording. Stats. 1983, Ch. 1158, in effect September 28, 1983, added the second sentence in subdivision (c). Stats. 1985, Ch. 1128, effective January 1, 1986, until January 1, 1991, and as of such date is repealed unless a later enacted statute, which is enacted before that date deletes or extends that date. Upon repeal, section as it existed prior to enactment of this temporary provision shall have the same force and effect as if this temporary provision had not been enacted. Added "nonmonetized gold … numismatic coins" after "monetized bullion" in subdivisions (a), (b), and (d), substituted "market value" for "face amount" in subdivision (b), and deleted subdivision (e) and added new subdivision (e). Stats. 1990, Ch. 1042, in effect September 19, 1990, operative January 1, 1991, substituted "1994" for "1991" in the first sentence of subdivision (e), and deleted second sentence of subdivision (e), which provided, "If that date is not deleted or extended, then, on and after January 1, 1991, pursuant to Section 9611 of the Government Code, Section 6355 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, as amended by Section 1 of Chapter 1158 of the Statutes of 1983, shall have the same force and effect as if this temporary provision had not been enacted." Stats. 1993, Ch. 977, in effect October 11, 1993, substituted "that" for "which" after "numismatic coins" in subdivision (9); added "(1)" after "(b)"; added paragraph (2) and subparagraphs (2)(A), (2)(B) and (2)(C) to subdivision (b); added subdivision (c); and deleted subdivision (e) which contained a sunset clause which would have repealed the section effective January 1, 1994. Stats. 1994, Ch. 146, in effect January 1, 1995, substituted "sale" for "sales" after "from the" in subdivision (a). Stats. 2012, Ch. 184 (AB 843), in effect January 1, 2013, substituted "October" for "September" after "or before each" in subparagraph (A) of paragraph (2) of subdivision (b).
Foreign Coins.—A sale of foreign coins is an exempt bulk sale if their market value is $1,000 or more in United States money. Alan Van Vliet Enterprises, Inc. v. State Board of Equalization (1977) 65 Cal.App.3d 964.


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This document attempts to describe the current state of the ideas and designs for a synchronization based file access for remote projects. This document has been started by Roland Schulz based on discussions on bug 316709.
Remote project support in Eclipse (i.e. projects where the source code is located remotely, and the executable is built and run remotely) is an essential requirement for science and engineering applications. Currently, options for using remote projects in Eclipse are:
- Network filesystems
- Revision control systems
- Remote services
The problems with these approaches are discussed below. The approach being proposed has different disadvantages (see below). Thus this approach is not meant to replace the current RDT approach but offer an alternative. This will allow the user to choose the approach with those advantages best aligned to his working environment. Also this approach will reuse parts from RDT (e.g. scanner/indexer) from RDT.
Network filesystems
Using a network filesystem, such as NFS, to trick Eclipse into thinking the project is local suffers from a number of problems. The indexing and advanced editing features of CDT require accessing all source files in the project. These features already suffer performance related issues when accessing local files (particularly for large projects). When using a network filesystem, they can become unacceptably slow. In addition, network filesystems typically require system administration access to configure locally (although systems such as FUSE can be used to circumvent this) and on the remote system. This technique also requires a continuous network connection in order to access the project.
Revision control systems
Eclipse provides exemplary integration with a variety of RCS's, including CVS, SVN, and git. One approach to remote projects is to use the features of a RCS, to synchronize with a remote copy of the project. This has the nice feature of already being well integrated with Eclipse, but activities such as building and launching do not support this model since they need to take place on the remote system. In addition, there are other issue with scanner discovery and the remote environment that will be discussed in more detail below.
Remote services
The Remote Development Tools (RDT) takes the approach of identifying the range of services required for C/C++ projects and creating remote implementations of these. These services can be broken down into the following categories:
- file access (for editing)
- managed build
- make build
- indexing
- model builder (e.g. outline view)
- call hierarchy
- type hierarchy
- content assist
- include browser
- navigation (e.g. open declaration)
- search
RDT currently supports either RemoteTools and RSE for providing remote services. Both Remote Tools and RSE use a remote DStore server to provide remote implementations of most of these services. File access is provided using the EFS abstraction in Eclipse. EFS services are provided either via the DStore server for RSE, or a separate SFTP service for Remote Tools (for historical reasons).
This approach has several disadvantages:
- Although caching can be used in many cases, responsiveness of UI is determined by network speed.
- A continuous network connection is required for project access
- A large number of users could overload the remote system with indexing
- Not all CDT functions can be supported using this model (e.g. refactoring)
- Remote search currently only works with RSE
- Not all Eclipse functionality fully supports EFS (e.g. Team services)
- Only CDT (i.e. C and C++) is supported, other languages, such as Fortran, would require a significant engineering effort
The Eclipse core and CDT are doing most of the file operations in the main thread (based on the assumtion that all file operations are low latency). This causes a responsiveness problems with a remote file system.
Because the file operations are in the main thread they block the GUI until the IO operation finishes and thus preventing the user to continue the work while the IO operation is running. It also often prevents IO operations which could run in parallel to do so. See Bugs 160353, 177994, 195997, 218387, 219169 and wiki.eclipse.org/TM_and_RSE_FAQ from the RSE team regarding the same problem for RSE. Their seems to be no work-around for this problem. While it seems in theory to be possible to improve it somewhat by using Display.readAndDispatch, it is not advised and has been removed from RSE (160353). Having a responsive UI is considered by many extremely important thus this is an important point.
It is very unlikely, at least for the medium-term (meaning the next Eclipse release in 2011), that both Eclipse Core and CDT move all file operations into threads and hide latency by doing IO operations in parallel. Therefore a different approach is needed to have an acceptably performing remote IO method.
Remote Synchronization
As an alternative to the current techniques, we are proposing a new approach for remote projects. This approach relies on maintaining synchronization between two copies of the project: a local copy that exists in the user's workspace; and a remote copy that is used for building and launching the application.
- A local copy of the project exists in the filesystem, so network latencies are minimized
- Offline operation is possible
- All CDT functions are supported
- Other languages, such as Fortran require minimal effort to support
- Eclipse features, such as Team support, can also be used
- The entire project must be copied to the local machine. This only happens once, but could take a very long time for large projects/slow connections.
- Local indexing is problematic as the local environment will be different from the remote environment, so macros and includes will be incorrect. Running scanner discovery remotely seems to be the obvious way to solve the macro problem, but scanner discovery is hopelessly broken and not even the CDT people seem to know how it works. In addition, the indexer would need to be modified to copy system and library includes from the remote machine as part of the indexing.
- Some activities, such as building, will always need to be done remotely, so the performance problems will always be evident to some degree.
Similar/Prior efforts
Within Eclipse
- rsync file subsystem Bug describing ideas to implement rsync based back-end for RSE
- Use rsync to sync the remote workspace to the local machine FAQ including disadvantages and advantages of using Rsync for a remote project
Photran (Support for Fortran)
- PTP/photran/rsync remote projects wiki page describing the working Photran test implementation
- Rsync-style Remote Project Support for Photran
- Remote Include Path Support
The current implementation is a strawman prototype of a rsync-based remotely-synchronized project. It adds a new project wizard which creates a C/Fortran project but replaces the standard CDT build command (make) with a call to a custom shell script which uses rsync to copy the project to a remote server and run make remotely. This was definitely a prototype -- I'm sure the final version won't look anything like it (e.g., our build script makes two or three separate connections to the remote machine) -- but this is *simple* and it works, more or less, which gave us something real to try out.
Remote Include Path Support adds remote (Fortran) INCLUDE paths to Photran. Photran's include paths are configured in the project properties. Traditionally, they'd be paths on the local maching (e.g., /usr/include:/usr/local/include). This replaces them with URIs, so they can be on either the local machine or a remote one (e.g., rse://remotehost/usr/include:file:///usr/include). It also changes the properties page to use a remote file selection dialog box.
Outside from Eclipse
Synchronization using GIT
- website synchronization
- php web deployment using git
- deploy php using git
- 5 tips for deploying sites
- update website with a single command git push
Remote file systems
Use Cases
- local project
- project in Eclipse workspace, not synchronized
- remote project
- project on remote system, not synchronized
- synchronized project
- project that exists in workspace and on remote machine, and that has been set up for synchronization
There is an implicit assumption in each of these use cases that they will be able to operate in "offline mode", i.e. where the client is disconnected from the remote system for some period of time. At some point after the client is reconnected (yet to be determined), there will be a resynchronization.
- User is developing a new project (managed or make based) for a single remote machine
- User launches "New remote sync project" wizard
- User supplies the project name, remote host, username, password, and remote path
- Empty project (or initial template) created on local and remote machines
- Wizard sets up builder/scanner discovery/remote paths to work on remote system
- User has an existing local project (managed or make based) and wishes to develop on a single remote machine
- User launches "Convert to remote sync project" wizard
- User supplies the remote host, username, password, and remote path
- Wizard sets up builder/scanner discovery/remote paths to work on remote system
- The project is synchronized with the remote machine
- User has an existing remote project (make based) and wishes to develop with Eclipse
- User launches "Import remote project" wizard
- User supplies the project name, remote host, username, password, and remote path
- Wizard sets up builder/scanner discovery/remote paths to work on remote system
- The project is synchronized with the remote machine
- User has an existing local project that has been checked out of revision control system
- User launches "Convert to remote sync project" wizard
- User supplies the remote host, username, password, and remote path
- Wizard sets up builder/scanner discovery/remote paths to work on remote system
- The project is synchronized with the remote machine
- RCS control files are not synchronized
- User has an existing synchronized project, and wishes to develop for multiple remote systems
- User launches "Add remote target" wizard (or possibly through project preferences)
- User supplies the remote host, username, password, and remote path
- Wizard sets up builder/scanner discovery/remote paths to work on remote system
- The project is synchronized with the new remote machine
Design Elements
- How will synchronized projects be implemented?
- Synchronized projects should not interfere with existing project types. i.e. any type of project should be synchronizable
- A synchronized project will be indicated by a remoteSyncNature
- When a synchronized project is created (or an existing project converted), a remoteSyncNature will be added to the project configuration
- A synchronized project will be able to synchronize with multiple synchronization point (target system + project location)
- There may be more than one synchronized project for each synchronization point
- A decorator will be used to indicate that the project is a synchronized project (e.g. in the Package Explorer)
- The nature will add a new property page to the project. This property page will list all the systems that the project will synchronized with (and allow remote systems to be added/removed) and how they will sync
- When will synchronization occur?
- Synchronization will be customizable
- Prior to a build. The builder will call an ensureSync() method to guarantee that all outstanding synchronization calls have finished
- After a resource change (save, delete, rename, etc.) Synchronizing after each save should be asynchronous, otherwise the responsiveness problem wouldn't be addressed
- Should synchronization be manual or automatic?
- Build automatically requires automatic synchronization. If the user tries to build manually and automatic sync is deactivated Eclipse should ask the user whether he/she wants to sync (similar to the current question whether he/she wants to save unsaved files)
- How does synchronization play with Team support?
- Synchronization will be independent since it's unlikely that the user will want to have each synchronization event show up in his Team Revision history.
- Synchronization should work well with any potential Team support (e.g. not synchronize RCS files; or support GIT both for sync and Team while isolating them of each other by e.g. having different branches)
- For sync methods that use git or other RCS's, we should still be able to use the Repository Exploring perspective to set up the repository and access this information when performing the sync
- Where will synchronization information be stored?
- Service configurations will be used to store connection information
- Remote system information will be saved in the user's workspace using the service configuration mechanism (so that it ties into the other parts of PTP)
- Service configurations will also specify the different sync methods (and sync method-specific information)
- How will synchronization be controlled?
- The current plan is to use build configurations to control synchronization
- Each build configuration will include the target system name (e.g. target1_release, target1_debug, target2_debug, etc.)
- The "active" configuration will specify the synchronization point (target system + project location) for synchronization
- Building a non-active configuration will automatically switch the "active" configuration
- If the user has selected Indexer->"Use active build configuration", changing the "active" configuration will result in a re-synchronization and index rebuild
- If the user has selected Indexer->"Use fixed build configuration", this "fixed" configuration and its associated target machine is used for the index. With this option selected, the index is not rebuild when switching the active build configuration, but only when changing the "fixed" build configuration.
- How will off-line development be supported?
Possible Back-ends
Rsync and GIT both have advantages and disadvantages. Thus it sounds reasonable to support at least those two and make it easy to add others later on.
Advantages of Rsync
- widely available. And thus easy to set-up without installing software on the remote machine
- others:TBD
Disadvantages of Rsync
Status of Java implementation is uncertain
- Using the command line tool instead has several disadvantages:
- Support for Windows
- Passing Password/Not possible to share same connection
- Reliance on external tool
- C Library is available (librsync) but would require e.g. JNI, NestedVM
- Java libraries that support file synchronization without being compatible with Rsync (e.g. JFileSync). OK because we could upload Server automatically. But protocol should be fast and reliable.
- The synchronization is only one-way
- Problems if clocks are not synchronized between systems
The two-way is important if, either automatically or by the user, remote files get changed. The one-way synchronization of rsync would usually not synchronize changes to the client and would not detect conflicts caused by changes on both sides very well.
Advantages of GIT
- It has a java implementation (shipping with Helios)
- Java can also be used on the server (if native is not available)
- is known to be extremely fast (including the java implementation)
- supports two way synchronization.
Of course GIT is not meant as a synchronization tool (but a DCVS) but it works as a synchronization tool extremely well. Using git for synchronization would work both for those users using it also for version control and for those users using some other tool for version control. As an example a remote synchronization of a folder containing ~4000files (1 changed - which unknown to GIT), ~100MB, where GIT detects file changes on both sides, over a remote connection (cable), takes less than one second. The performance is mainly limited by the file system for the tree traversal.
Implementation Issues with GIT
To push to a non-bare repository is discouraged
Their are different options
- Fetch (not good option because it requires SSHD on the client)
- Push into working branch with post-update hook. Disadvantages: Requires stat of each file on server (slow over NFS) and doesn't allow merge on client side
- Push to separate bare repository. Disadvantage: Requires 2 repositories
- Push to remote branch. Seems best option
Preprocessing & Indexing
Many of the advanced features of CDT and Photran require indexing/parsing the source code. When a project is being built remotely, the source code presented to the user should reflect the environment on the remote system rather than the local system. The main mechanisms that distinguish a remote environment from the local environment are the macros that are predefined by the compiler and the system include files that are included in the source code.
Note that this support is independent of remote synchronization (although may use some remote synchronization functionality to achieve it). A remotely synchronized project can still use a purely local environment without requiring any additional functionality.
System Include Files
To present an accurate reflection of the remote environment, system include files need to be fetched from the remote system for the preprocessor and indexer. This requires changes to the preprocessor and other parts of CDT/Photran in order to obtain the header file from the correct remote system rather than from the local system. To avoid performance issues, header files should also be cached locally where possible, but this must be an option as licensing issues may prevent it on some systems.
Scanner Discovery
Compiler (and makefile) defined macros play an important part in determining which header files will be included as well as which parts of the code will be enabled or disabled. CDT attempts to determine these macros using a process known as scanner discovery. This involves running commands on the target system to determine the macros that are defined. This process is inherently complex because every system has different compilers with different options for determining this information. RDT has already provided some remote scanner discovery functionality, so we plan to reuse this for synchronized projects.
Support for other Remote Tools besides Build
- Check feasibility of remote include path support in CDT (see #Preprocessing & Indexing)
- Define a new Synchronization service type (which add synchronization/replication to the running EFS). It would have as public method guranteeSynchronized. The default server (for a purely local project or for remotetools/RSE) would do nothing.
- Add to all remote operations (compile, remote index, ..) a call to gureanteeSyncronized
- Implement a GIT based synchronization service (doing the GIT push in the gureanteeSyncronized call)
- Add the GUI to configure the synronization service (including new project wizard)
Later an EFS which would do the asynchronous GIT push after a file modifcation(e.g. save) and the gureanteeSyncronized would just wait for the push to finish.
Timeline: TBD
Additional Features
Remote file view
To run the binary it is required to select it on the remote machine. For that it would be nice to be able to browse the remote machine using RemoteTools/RSE. Preferable the path shown is the path to the remote copy of the local project. Also it would be nice to have a "Project Explorer" View for the files on the remote machines. This would allow to view binaries, object files and other remote files not part of the synchronization. This view should also use RemoteTools/RSE
Build local and remote from same project
If the remote build is implemented as a builder which can be added to a standard CDT/Photran project, than it is possible to have both a local and remote builder for the same project. CDT already supports several builder configuration. Thus this can be used to switch between local and (potentially several) remote builder. It has to be checked that the indexer (including the remote include files) is updated correctly when the builder configuration switches.


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Chemotherapy is the treatment of cancer with cytotoxic drugs. Chemotherapy is a systemic therapy; it usually treats the whole body, as opposed to radiotherapy or surgery that provides focused treatment to a specific area of the body.
Chemotherapy Can Be
- Adjuvant therapy - Used after primary treatment such as surgery, to prevent metastases.
- Neoadjuvant therapy - Used to reduce the amount or size of a tumor before surgery.
- Primary therapy - Used when surgery is not indicated or possible.
- Radiosensitizer - Used along with radiation therapy to enhance the effectiveness of the radiation.
How Chemotherapy Works
Chemotherapy works by preventing cells from completing the duplication process, known as mitosis. If the cancer cells cannot multiply, they cannot spread into adjacent organs or migrate to develop into metastatic tumors. Chemotherapy is given on a schedule over a prescribed period of time that will maximize cell kill and allow normal cells to recover.
How Chemotherapy Is Administered
Chemotherapy is usually administered through an intravenous (IV) access. There are several other ways to administer chemotherapy:
- Instillation – for example, into the bladder.
- Directly to the area where a tumor has been removed – such as biodegradable chemotherapy wafers used for some brain tumors.
- Topically – directly on the skin.
- Orally - as a tablet or capsule.
Chemotherapy drugs are selected specific to each cancer cell type. Combination chemotherapy can increase the effectiveness of single agent drugs in the treatment of some cancers. Different drugs are often used in combinations given on the same or different days of a chemotherapy cycle.
What to Expect
Chemotherapy is usually administered by specially trained Registered Nurses in an outpatient setting, such as an infusion center, a physician's office or even in the home. Some chemotherapy regimens require inpatient hospital stays for several days of infusion. The side effects of chemotherapy drugs can include hair loss (alopecia), nausea, fatigue, constipation and dramatic changes in blood cell counts such as anemia, leukopenia (low white cell count) and thrombocytopenia (low platelet count). Some drugs can cause toxicities in the liver, kidneys, heart, lungs and affect nerve function. Some treatments result in reproductive dysfunction and temporary metabolic alterations.
Benefits of Chemotherapy
The goals of cancer treatment include longer survival, higher cure rates and better disease control, which can offer longer intervals between recurrences. The benefits of chemotherapy are likely to increase as newer drugs are developed and more advanced combinations of treatments are researched.


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Let's be honest, shall we? Television has never been particularly kind to science fiction. Sure, Rod Serling had a good run on "The Twilight Zone" back in the early '60s. But even some of TV's most venerated sci-fi series haven't had a particularly easy time of it. "Star Trek" is as big a pop cultural touchstone as you can find, having launched five TV series and 11 feature films—including J.J. Abrams' reboot, which hit theaters last weekend. But the original 1966 series never rose higher than No. 52 in weekly ratings and was canceled in the middle of its third season.Recently, the outlook for sci fi on TV has gotten bleaker. The Sci Fi Channel, seemingly created to air science fiction, has moved away from the genre, relying on programming as unrelated as professional wrestling. In June, the network will change its name to SyFy—which still technically looks and sounds like Sci Fi but offers significantly more wiggle room. At his network's upfront presentation to advertisers in March, Sci Fi Channel president Dave Howe said he wanted to "build a broader, more open and accessible and relatable and human-friendly brand." Translation: Humans don't like science fiction.And, given the numbers for sci fi-heavy TV shows of late, it's hard to argue. ABC's "Lost," for example, has allowed its sci-fi roots to show significantly this season, laying out a mind-bending time travel plotline. The result? Season 5's two-hour premiere registered 11.4 million viewers—the lowest ever for the show and a full 26 percent lower than Season 4's debut. Among the sci fi-tinged shows falling into the "canceled" wastebasket this season were ABC's time-hopping cop series "Life on Mars" (which managed to add virtual reality and space travel to the rushed series finale), ABC's humorous animating-the-dead detective series "Pushing Daisies," NBC's high-tech revival of "Knight Rider" and NBC's curious alternate-reality political drama "Kings." Still on the chopping block is FOX's Friday night block of "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" and "Dollhouse," both of which posted dismally declining ratings this season. FOX seems committed to edgy sci-fi series, but the network keeps sticking them on Friday night when no one (certainly not the sci fi-friendly 18 to 34 age demographic) is home watching. Is science fiction just too limiting a genre? Is that why shows like CBS' "Eleventh Hour" and FOX's "Fringe" go out of their way to avoid the sci-fi label? Is that why authors like Neil Stephenson now prefer the term "speculative fiction"? Maybe—god help us—SyFy Channel is actually on the right track.There are flashes of hope. ABC seems to have committed to "Flash Forward," a series in which everyone on Earth gets a glimpse at their (not so fantastic) future. It's based on the award-winning science-fiction novel by Robert J. Sawyer and it's produced by David S. Goyer ( The Dark Knight ) and Brannon Braga ("Star Trek: Enterprise"). Sounds great, but we'll have to wait until fall to see if the network gives it more than three weeks to succeed.


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Established in 1757, the old Locke's Distillery has recently been restored and, after a 50 year closure, whiskey production began here once more in 2007.
The Kilbeggan Distillery Experience is open to the public and, although not the smoothly commercial operation that might be expected by visitors who have also been to some of the longer established distillery visitor centres, is well worth a visit. Both guided and self-guided tours are available, with tastings.
The first release of Kilbeggan Distillery Reserve Malt was in June 2010 and product is now available from retail outlets and can also be purchased from the distillery.
The Pantry restaurant offers refreshments on site and meals can be provided for groups by arrangement.


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Lately, I've been having good luck with online surveys. Not only have I earned more than $20 for relatively little work, I've been asked to test several products.
Can't say exactly what they are – confidentiality agreements – but they're all things I was happy to get. Even though none of them was a pony.
As I noted in "Make hundreds by taking online surveys," this can be a nice way to bring in some extra dollars or some gift cards. Both can bolster your budget.
That said, I just canceled my memberships in three survey sites because I decided they were expecting too much and offering too little. For example, I might get 150 points for a survey – but the smallest reward cost 10,000 points.
Heck, one site doesn't even give actual rewards. It lets you trade your points in for chances at cash drawings. Do the math.
And any time I see an invitation that offers 50 cents for a 40-minute survey, I pass.
Every little bit helps?
Some people wouldn't. A number of the folks I interviewed said they do surveys while watching TV with family, keeping an eye on the kids in the yard, or waiting for supper to cook. I bet plenty of cubicle workers keep surveys open on alternate screens too.
For them, the 50 multitasked cents are a bonus. But I spend too much time on the computer as it is. I like getting the extra funds, but it needs to be maximum reward for minimum effort.
Thus, I've decided to stick with surveys that are shorter and pay what I consider a decent amount – and like the folks above, I multitask. I keep a survey screen open while I'm doing other online chores, or eating an apple, or, yeah, talking on the phone. (Don't pretend you've never done your nails, folded laundry, or killed Xbox aliens while chatting with your BFF.)
My advice: Don't join every survey company you're invited to join, and if you don't get good results, cancel.
Also: If you have your own website, surveys can be a good source of prizes. How else would I be able to give away so many Amazon.com gift cards?
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Bardejov Town Conservation Reserve
Bardejov Town Conservation Reserve
Bardejov is a small but exceptionally complete and well-preserved example of a fortified medieval town, which typifies the urbanisation in this region. Among other remarkable features, it also contains a small Jewish quarter around a fine 18th-century synagogue.
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Réserve de conservation de la ville de Bardejov
Petite mais exceptionnellement complète et bien conservée, Bardejov est un exemple de ville médiévale fortifiée, illustrant admirablement l'urbanisation de cette région. Elle comporte également un petit quartier juif, construit autour d'une superbe synagogue du XVIIIe siècle.
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محمية مدينة بارديجوف
بارديجوف مدينة صغيرة لكن مكتملة ومحفوظة بصورة ممتازة، وهي مثال للمدينة المحصنة العائدة الى القرون الوسطى والتي تجسّد بشكل رائع تمدّن هذه المنطقة، كما انها تحتضن حياّ يهودياً صغيراً بني حول سيناغوغ رائع من القرن الثامن عشر.
source: UNESCO/CPE
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source: UNESCO/CPE
Description is available under license CC-BY-SA IGO 3.0
Город-заповедник Бардеёв
Бардеёв – это небольшой, но исключительно целостный и хорошо сохранившийся укрепленный средневековый город, типичный для этого региона. Среди разнообразных достопримечательностей в нем также находится небольшой еврейский квартал, сложившийся вокруг синагоги XVIII в.
source: UNESCO/CPE
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Reserva de conservación de la ciudad de Bardejov
Pequeña, pero excepcionalmente completa y bien conservada, Bardejov es un ejemplo de ciudad medieval fortificada que ilustra admirablemente la urbanización de esta región. Posee un pequeño barrio judío, construido en torno a una soberbia sinagoga del siglo XVIII.
source: UNESCO/CPE
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スロバキア北東部、カルパティア山脈の南麓に位置する中世の要塞都市。ポーランドとの交易路に位置したこの都市は、14世紀に自由都市としての特権を獲得し、14~16世紀の中欧東部における都市化の典型的な例証になっている。15~16世紀に文化的な最盛期を迎え、スロバキア初の公設図書館やラテン語学校、印刷所が設立された。小規模ながら例外的なほど完全で良好に保存された都市で、小さなユダヤ人地区が残されていることも特筆される。source: NFUAJ
Bardejov stad conservatiegebied
Bardejov is een klein maar zeer compleet en goed bewaard gebleven voorbeeld van een middeleeuwse vestingstad, typerend voor de verstedelijking in deze regio. Vanaf het eerste kwartaal van de 18e eeuw kwamen er grote aantallen Slowaakse en chassidische joden naar Bardejov. Ze herbouwden de poortershuizen of pasten ze aan in overeenstemming met de toen geldende architecturale mode. Er kwam een Joodse wijk met de Grote synagoge, een slachthuis, rituele baden. Daarnaast werden er nieuwe kerken en bruggen gebouwd.
Source: unesco.nl
Outstanding Universal Value
Brief synthesis
The town of Bardejov is located in north-eastern Slovakia, on a floodplain terrace of the river Topľa near the Polish border. Due to its proximity to the major trade route that stretches across the Carpathian Mountains, from Hungary into Poland, Bardejov was able to develop into an important medieval town.
The town's surviving urban plan, with a regular division of streets around a spacious market square, is an indication of European civilization from the 13th to 14th centuries. Burghers' houses, dating from the first half of the 15th century, surround three sides of the square and document the highly developed burgess culture. The fourth side of the square is closed by the Roman Catholic Church of St. Giles, a three-naved Gothic basilica with a precious collection of eleven late Gothic altars. The Renaissance town hall occupies the centre of the square. The historic core of the town is encircled by the fortification system which was, at the time of its construction, one of the most advanced in Central Europe. The area of the town's historic core was declared a Town Conservation Reserve in 1950. Bardejov also has a well-preserved small Jewish suburb. This quarter, developed over the 18th century around a synagogue (1725-1747), still contains a unique set of surviving buildings from that era: a kosher slaughter house, some ritual baths, and a meeting building (Beth Hamidrash).
Bardejov provides exceptionally well-preserved evidence of the economic and social structure of trading towns in medieval Central Europe. Its surviving building stock represents a developed burgess culture and Jewish community, thus illustrating a multi-national and multi-cultural society.
Criterion (iii): The fortified town of Bardejov provides exceptionally well-preserved evidence of the economic and social structure of trading towns in medieval Central Europe.
Criterion (iv): The plan, buildings and fortifications of Bardejov illustrate the urban complex that developed in Central Europe in the Middle Ages along the great trade routes of the period.
The delimitation and size of the property are appropriate and all the important elements necessary to convey the Outstanding Universal Value of the property are contained within its boundaries. The historic town core has retained the key characteristic attributes of a medieval trade town especially with regards to its urban plan, its original building lot divisions (parcels), its central square, its streets, most of its open spaces, public buildings, fortifications, and its townscape. Outside the fortifications, the Jewish suburb survives relatively intact with its original layout and component parts such as the synagogue, baths, and slaughter house.
The town-planning structures of the property are stabilized but there is, as in all living towns, a risk of development pressures, especially in the buffer zone.
Bardejov Town Conservation Reserve has preserved a high level of authenticity. Despite several major fires, mainly in the 16th and 17th centuries, its medieval urban form has been retained. Moreover, the housing stock has survived with no major demolitions or additions. The dynamics of the town's roof landscape, destroyed in the last fire, has been restored by the systematic reconstructions which begun after 1967. Although some buildings have undergone alterations, most have retained their authentic interiors. Traditional uses for burghers' houses have also been retained or restored with business and service functions combined with residential use on the upper floors. The buildings, with their original materials, openings, decorations, and fittings, are well preserved. The Jewish suburb has also retained high authenticity, as reflected in its early 18th century road network, urban plots, buildings and open spaces. Parts of the fortifications have been demolished or, in the case of the moat, filled in. However, more than half of the fortifications are still intact and well maintained, and some of the towers are still in use.
A special value of the property lies in its present-day vitality and contemporary activities which do not compromise the historic substance, yet it needs to face the challenge of finding an appropriate use for the Jewish suburb as the town's Jewish population has diminished.
Protection and management requirements
The 24-ha property has the highest form of monument protection enabled by the national legislation. The Slovak Republic has adopted the special Act No. 176/2002 Coll. on the protection and development of the town of Bardejov that refers to the whole property. The Ministry of Culture and the Monuments Board of the Slovak Republic have the overall responsibility for the property's protection.
The property's protection is legislatively secured by the provisions of the Act No. 49/2002 Coll. on the protection of monuments and historic sites that refers to the protection of all cultural monuments and protected areas within the World Heritage property. In the sense of this act, the historic core of the town has been declared a town conservation reserve and most of the buildings, in both the historic centre and the Jewish suburb, are protected as national cultural monuments. The property's protection is strengthened by the declared buffer zone of the town conservation reserve that covers 13 ha and corresponds with the World Heritage buffer zone.
Property ownership includes a variety of religious institutions (such as Catholic, Protestant and Greek-Orthodox churches and the Central Union of the Jewish Religious Communities in Slovakia), government (municipal and State), and private individuals.
A regular system of monitoring has been established according to which the Outstanding Universal Value of the property is assessed and monitored, whilst measures for avoiding identified threats are taken.
All planned activities within the property must comply with the legally binding Principles of Conservation of Bardejov Town Conservation Reserve (2009) and are liable to strict assessment of the project documentation by the regional monuments office. The Principles of Conservation are respected by the provisions of the urban planning documentation as well as by the property's management plan. The management system is updated in order to create an efficient and coherent system of the property management. Bardejov Town Council conducts the property management in close cooperation with the local representative of the respective national authority, Regional Monuments Board Prešov.


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On /r/trees, there's a "highness scale" that people use to indicate how high they are. I love all the Ents at /r/trees, and Im'a let you finish, but that scale is not quite the most useful scale of all time, because it's relative. I realize none of this is completely scientific, and that everything is relative, and all that kind of stuff, but "10 is the highest you've ever been in your life" doesn't quite cut it for me, because I've seen a lot of ups and downs and everyone else will too. So I prefer to use a scale with known points on it, as far as is possible.
For levels 0 through 10, you should use this chart, which is as good as anything else I've found. It was originally created by Talisman, whoever s/he is, and I've actually searched to give better credit. I typed it in from this image, which I consider to be the actual source (or a copy, anyway) and much more artistic than my mere words.
0 Sober: completely normal, you feel nothing out of the ordinary.
1-2 Buzzed: you can tell you are slightly high, things are more interesting, everything seems "thicker".
3-4 High: you are high, slight craving for food, you tend to stare at objects and into space often, you feel relaxed but somewhat in a daze.
5-6 Really High: you are fully high, there is a slight vibration in your body, focusing is hard, you're having very random thoughts. Putting together sentences is a challenge. Few if any audial hallucinations.
7-8 Blazed/Stoned: very high, vibrations and waves of euphoria rush through your body every 5 to 9 seconds. Expeiencing mild CEVs, everything dark has a sparkling texture, everything is brighter. Some audial hallucinations.
9-10 In Space: completely lost in thought, amazing pleasure, you feel like a god, you see strong CEVs, sparkling textures everywhere, everything is brightened, mild/strong audial hallucinations.
My scale merges with and attempts to extend Talisman's scale even further into the cosmic realm. I do not attempt to catalog the exact physical/mental effects, the way Talisman did, because it's not necessary or even possible from this point on. If you've reached these levels, you will understand, and if you haven't…you will understand when you do reach them. It's based on a lot of experience (almost 45 years), not to mention the unexpected trip I took yesterday, in which all the following information was dumped into my brain like Buckaroo Banzai in the phone booth.
10. This is the top level high you should expect from smoking marijuana. If you can move at all, it is not very fast. If you're not standing up…don't even try.
11. You have found the "secret level"! You didn't think you could get this high by smoking marijuana, and you're right, because…you cannot generally get here without edibles. You are totally on the verge of tripping, but aren't. It is intense as fuck but still light and happy. This is the same level as an "acid high", which you experience on an LSD trip both on the way up and on the way down.
12. You are now tripping. Congratulations and try to hold it together.
13. You are tripping and losing control. If you don't manage to keep control at this level (or above), you may well lose your mind temporarily or even permanently, and/or find yourself in an emergency room or mental institution. If you are on LSD (or similar), this is the part usually called "peaking".
14. You have made it past the danger zone, mostly. But you can re-enter it at any time, literally with a single thought. You can also become totally enlightened with a single thought. This level and the next three are otherwise indescribable, and they (and your experiences) differ mainly based on the dosage you have taken…each level is essentially a doubling of the previous dosage.
15. This is the farthest/highest I have ever been, and it took 1,000 micrograms of LSD to get me there. Once is plenty, thank you!
16. Dude…
17. I can't even…
18. You have now merged your consciousness with the universe. You no longer need the Internet to share thoughts with others. You are also stone cold dead, completely alive, a bumblebee, a flower, a cat, Buddha, Jesus Christ, an alien, and God…simultaneously.
None of these levels actually require drugs, but a lot depends on your actual body, blood, and brain chemistry (some people were just not born to be the Buddha…and some were).
Most experiences have a general "cruising altitude" with some parts at a somewhat higher level (generally one or two levels higher). Most people cite the "cruising altitude" but it's the highest level on their experience that they will remember, because it's the part that scared them the most, generally 🙂
Why 11 for the secret level? Do you really have to ask?
Why 13 for bad trips? I guess it goes with all the other 13-phobia 🙂
Why 18 for the top of the scale? Probably from all the meanings of 18.
If you're into psychedelic philosophy, 12 and 13 are theoretically the same level…as is 14. Just remember that once you're actually tripping, it's like running on a spinning soccer ball glowing from the inside…any disturbance or loss of control will likely cause you grief, and you don't want to find out how bad it can be.
Very few people make it to Level 18. If you are reasonably well educated, at least in terms of world cultures, then you already know most of their names…


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The UT Dallas chess team started the 2013-14 season with a strong showing at the 79th Annual Southwest Open, which was held Aug. 30-31 in Irving.
The top spots in the tournament went to UT Dallas students, including Grandmaster (GM) George Margvelashvili, a finance graduate student who finished first. GM Julio Sadorra, a senior studying business administration, tied teammate GM David Berczes, an international political economy freshman, for second and third.
"We are ready for another good year," said Jim Stallings, director of the UT Dallas chess program. "With new recruits joining our team, combined with our returning players, this is the strongest we have ever been."
Margvelashvili, whose home country is Georgia, is among the new players entering the University this year. Also new to the team are Berczes from Hungary; GM Nadezda Kosintseva, an accounting major from Russia; GM Leonid Kritz, a finance graduate student from Germany; Woman International Master (WIM) Mariam Danelia, an international political economy freshman from Georgia; and Ryan Moon, an economics freshman from Duluth, Ga.
"We are very excited to now have a total of eight players with a Grandmaster title, the highest chess rating possible," said chess team coach Rade Milovanovic. "They are a talented group of young men and women from across the world."
The team will play next in the U.S. Class Championships, Sept. 28-29 in Houston.


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We tinfoiled up the Launchpad at the end of August and asked this town's randiest bands to take the stage. Basement Films projected weirdo footage onto several ethereal screens, and 111 Media Collective screen-printed limited-edition Alibi shirts live. Autumn Chacon shot and edited this video for us. First up, The Scrams, an impressively raw and sweaty mess. Then Manby's Head, whose performance was so good, our music editor was seized by it. Next in the vid is Low on High, my new favorite band. And last, Chacon gave us a full song from The Dirty Novels during one of the group's very last shows ever.Andy Warhol once said he'd be happy to watch every party he's invited to from a monitor in his bedroom. Little did he know, with the advent of everyman cheap tech and cell phone cams, he could be doing that—just about—these days. If you didn't make it to the show, pull up a pillow.


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Manuscript Register
Collection Dates: 1951 -- 1983
(Bulk Dates: 1960s to 1970s)
9.25 linear ft.
This document describes a collection of materials held
by the
Special Collections Department
University of Iowa Libraries
Iowa City, Iowa 52242-1420
Phone: 319-335-5921
Fax: 319-335-5900
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Posted to Internet: June 2002
Note: These materials
were donated to the University of Iowa Libraries by the Des Moines Register
in 1985.
and Restrictions:
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for research. Copies of materials cannot be made without the express written
permission of a representative of the Des Moines Register, except in
cases of dissertation, thesis, or other scholarly work.
Photographs: Box 1
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Frank Miller: Cartoons As Commentary : Three Decades at the Register.
Des Moines, Iowa: Des Moines Register, 1983. Location: SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
Iowa Authors Collection No call number
MAIN Library F621 .M46 1983
Scope and Contents
The papers of Frank Miller, editorial cartoonist for the Des Moines Register are organized into four series: I: correspondence and related documents; II: a group of editorial cartoons with color overlays; III: a large number of actual (metal) engraved printing plates for Miller's cartoons; and IV: a group of printed cartoons (mostly 8 x 10 inches and larger) listed on a linked page.
Three indexes accompany this collection: A list of Library of Congress subject headings used to describe the cartoons in this collection; a list of personal names of persons appearing in the cartoons; and a chronological list of cartoon titles and captions that have been fully or partially dated to publication.
Series I
Correspondence, 1951 -- 1983
"For a Veteran of the War: Yuletide Raises
Specter of Korea's Kids." Des Moines Register, December 25, 1953
Miller -- Cartoons as Commentary: Three Decades at the Register. Drafts of introduction by James Flansburg
Miller Looks at Life
Obituary Material, 1983 and undated
Speech Notes
Box 2
Cartoons with overlays and color processes:
"According to his calculations their names should..."
And It's Only Got Ten Miles On It
"And This Is Just the Exhibition Season"
Another Hat in the Ring?
"Aren't You Going to Ask Us Any Questions About Our Lifestyle?"
Back When Things First Started Getting Noisy
"The Band Played Well"
A Big Parade This Week
[Camping Area]
Christmas In Iowa
"Give My Regards to Howard Cosell"
"Good Heavens! I Miss Howard Cosell!"
"Guess Old Walt Isn't Going to Retire From Farming for a While...."
"He's Not Going to Give Up Anything. The Inch, The Foot, The Mile...."
Helpful Holiday Hint: Never Let a Man Gift Wrap Anything
"Henry! You Aren't Planning to Grow Any More Zucchini in the Garden this Summer...."
"I Can Drive OK. With A Few Drinks in Me...."
Iowa: Where the Good Life Is
"Just Because You Talked to the President Yesterday...."
Just What We Needed
"Let's Get Up An Office Pool on When and Where It Will Hit"
Next: 100 Foot Triple-Bottom Trucks
"Nobody Can Complain About This. We Ain't Long and...."
Now For the Greatest Communicator of All
The Old Tightwad Takes a Ride
Our Latest Gunboat
Our Own Super Bowl
Our Statue of Liberty in Florida
"Our Vegetable Garden Isn't a Total Disaster...."
The Spirit of 1981
Strategy Meeting On the Mound
Terrace Hill
"There's Plenty of Gas Now So Let's Produce One...."They Say It's a Simple Machine
Those `Wonderful' Fourths When Moms Cooked, Yelled and Cried a Lot
The Trouble with Violin Lessons
"What This Town Needs Right Now is a Good, Old Fashioned Cherry Bomb Explosion."
What's So Unusual About a Volcano
U175 -- U182 (untitled cartoons)
Series III
Box 3
Engraved printing plates, 1956 -- December
11, 1961
Box 4
Engraved printing plates, December 12, 1961 -- March 24, 1963
Box 5
Engraved printing plates, March 25
-- June 1963
Box 6
Engraved printing plates, July -- December 1963
Box 7
Engraved printing plates, January -- May 15, 1964
Box 8
Engraved printing plates, May 16, 1964 -- March 15, 1965
Box 9
Engraved printing plates, March 16 -- December 1965
Box 10
Engraved printing plates, January -- July 1966
Box 11
Engraved printing plates, August 1966 -- June 1967
Box 12
Engraved printing plates, July 1967 -- December 1968
Box 13
Engraved printing plates, January 1969 -- March 15, 1970
Box 14
Engraved printing plates, March 16 -- July 15, 1970
Box 15
Engraved printing plates, July 16 -- October 1970
Box 16
Engraved printing plates, November 1970 -- February 18, 1971
Box 17
Engraved printing plates, February 19 -- May 15, 1971
Box 18
Engraved printing plates, May 16 -- July 1971
Box 19
Engraved printing plates, August -- December 1971
Box 20
Engraved printing plates, January -- April 1972
Box 21
Engraved printing plates, May -- September 15, 1972
Box 22
Engraved printing plates, September 16, 1972 -- January 1973
Box 23
Engraved printing plates, February -- June 1973
Box 24
Engraved printing plates, July -- December 1973
Box 25
Engraved printing plates, January -- March 1974
Box 26
Engraved printing plates, April -- July 15, 1974
Box 27
Engraved printing plates, July 16 -- November 15, 1974
Box 28
Engraved printing plates, November 16, 1974 -- April 9, 1975
Box 29
Engraved printing plates, April 10 -- July 24, 1975
Box 30
Engraved printing plates, July 25 -- November 10, 1975
Box 31
Engraved printing plates, November 11, 1975 -- February 1976
Box 32
Engraved printing plates and negative, March 1976 -- October 1978
Box 33
Negatives, October 1978 -- October 1979
Box 34
Negatives, November 1979 -- December 1980
Box 35
Negatives, January -- December 1981
Box 36
Negatives, January -- November 1982
Box 37
Engraved printing plates and negatives, December 1982 -- February 1983 and undated
Series IV
of printed cartoons (generally 8 x 10 inches or larger)
Merry Christmas to all Iowans Everywhere. Color poster


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Hedberg v. Detthow
Case seeking to remove custody restriction forcing a same-sex couple to live separately in order to retain custody of a child
Ulf Hedberg and his ex-wife separated when their son was four years old. For the next five and a half years, the child lived with Hedberg and his partner, Blaise Delahoussaye, in a Virginia home the couple purchased together. But the boy's mother petitioned for custody after she moved from Virginia to Florida. A Virginia court gave Hedberg custody of the boy on the condition that Delahoussaye move out of the family's home. To support two households, the couple sold their house and moved to Maryland, where they lived in separate apartments, leaving the boy without a second supportive adult at home. Finally, Hedberg asked a Maryland court to lift the restriction in light of the havoc it was causing in the boy's life. After the trial court turned Hedberg down, our legal team urged the Maryland Court of Special Appeals to remove the custody restriction, and in 2005, the court ruled that Hedberg could have his day in court to challenge the restriction. In March 2006, the trial court ruled that it was not in the child's best interest for his father and Delahoussaye to be separated, and the family was reunited.
Lambda Legal's Impact
Lambda Legal is solidifying LGBT parenting protections by challenging discriminatory custody laws that, in this case, had caused a child to lose another loving caregiver in the home and had cost his family their house.
- January 2005 Lambda Legal and the National Center for Lesbian Rights file brief in Maryland Court of Special Appeals seeking to remove custody restriction on behalf of gay father who is barred from living with his partner while raising his 12-year-old son.
- June 2005 Victory! Maryland Court of Special Appeals rules that Mr. Hedberg should have his day in court and sends the case back to lower court for a full hearing. The lower court had previously denied Hedberg's request to remove the restriction.
- March 2006 Trial court rules that keeping Hedberg's partner out of their home was not in the child's best interest.


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knitted easter egg decoration
January 10, 2008
As of April 1st 2019 there is a downloadable PDF file for this pattern available free from Ravelry
This pattern uses oddments of 4 ply yarn (I usually work it in cotton - such as Rowan Cotton 4ply) and uses 2.75 mm needles. My tension works out to 8 stitches and 10 rows per inch.
The egg is knitted flat and then seamed using mattress stitch. You can stuff the finished egg with polyfil / wool / cotton wadding or it will fit around a polystyrene egg (see here for supplies within the UK).
Row 1: Cast on 11 stitches (leaving a length of yarn about 6 inches for sewing up later)
Row 2: Purl
Row 3: K2, (*M1, K1) 8 times, K1 (19 stitches) *M1=make one,
Row 4: Purl
Row 5: K2, (M1, K1) 16 times, K1 (35 stitches)
Row 6: Purl
Row 7: Knit
Row 8: Purl
Row 9: K3, M1, (K2, M1) 6 times, K3, M1 (K2, M1) 7 times, K3 (50 stitches)
Row 10: Purl
Row 11: Change to yarn colour for pattern band - work chosen pattern band over the next 12 rows (see charts below for pattern suggestions) or simply use a contrasting colour for middle 12 rows.
Zig zag pattern using 3 colours:
Polka dot pattern using 2 colours:
Stripe pattern using 2 or more colours:
gingham pattern using 3 colours:
Or why not design your own band (50 stitches x 12 rows):
Row 23: change yarn colour and knit
Row 24: purl
Row 25: K3, K2 tog, (K2, K2tog) 11 times, K1 (38 stitches)
Row 26: purl
Row 27: K2, K2 tog, (K1, K2tog) 11 times, K1 (26 stitches)
Row 28: purl
Row 29: knit
Row 30: purl
Row 31: K1, (K2 tog) 12 times, K1 (14 stitches)
Row 32: purl
Cut the work from the yarn leaving an end around 6 inches long, thread end through stitches on needle and pull up tight. Use this end to begin sewing up the seam. Sew around 1 inch of seam and then begin seaming at other end of egg.
If you want to hang the egg as a decoration then cut a length of ribbon and tie the ends together. Thread the loop through the gathered stitches at the pointed end of the egg leaving the knotted part inside.
At the other end of the egg thread the length of yarn left by the cast on and use to catch up the 11 stitch loops and up pull tight. Continue in mattress stitch to close the seam - leaving around 2 inches of unclosed seam to stuff the egg (if using polyfil or similar). If you are fitting it around a polystyrene egg just sew around half an inch of seam at either end and close the rest of the seam with the polystyrene egg in place.
When the seams meet tie off ends and thread inside trimming off any excess ends.
Copyright © Julie Williams 2006.


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George Percy's A Trewe Relacyon
Jamestown colonist George Percy's A Trewe Relaycon, presented here in Mark Nicholls' new transcription, is, as Nicholls says, "a relentless catalog of woe and misery." Percy composed it in 1625, thirteen years after returning to England, apparently referring a now-lost diary. In part a defense of Percy's presidency during the 1609-10 Starving Time, the manuscript remained among his family's private papers for more than three centuries, and not printed until 1922. Nicholls worked from the only original copy, now in the Elkins Collection of the Free Library of Philadelphia.
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MIT researchers have used nanotechnology to develop a robot that can autonomously navigate across the surface of the ocean to clean up an oil spill.
Scientists envision using a fleet of the devices, dubbed a Seaswarm, to clean up oil spills more efficiently and at less cost than current methods, according to the university. Researchers report that a fleet of 5,000 Seaswarm robots would be able to clean a spill the size of the recent one in the Gulf of Mexico in a single month.
MIT's Seaswarm robot for cleaning oil spills (Photo courtesy of MIT)
"We hope that giant oil spills such as the Deepwater Horizon incident will not occur in the future, however, small oil leaks happen constantly in offshore drilling," said researcher Carlo Ratti, in a statement. "The brief we gave ourselves was to design a simple, inexpensive cleaning system to address this problem... Unlike traditional skimmers, Seaswarm is based on a system of small, autonomous units that behave like a swarm and 'digest' the oil locally while working around the clock without human intervention."
A team of MIT scientists developed a prototype of the robot, and will show it at an international festival in Italy this weekend. The festival is focused on how nanotechnology will change lives by 2050.
The single, 16-foot-long by 7-foot-wide robot is designed to use a conveyor belt covered with a thin nanowire mesh that absorbs oil. The nano mesh, which was developed at MIT, repels water while absorbing 20 times its own weight in oil. According to the university, the oil can be removed from inside the robot and burned. Then the mesh can be reused.
Using swarm behavior, the units will use wireless communication, along with GPS, to move across an area of ocean, without bunching up or leaving some areas uncleaned, MIT said. By detecting the edge of a spill and moving inward, the robots will communicate with each other to spread out evenly across the spill.
"We envisioned something that would move as a rolling carpet along the water and seamlessly absorb a surface spill," said MIT researcher Assaf Biderman. "This led to the design of a novel marine vehicle -- a simple and lightweight conveyor belt that rolls on the surface of the ocean, adjusting to the waves."
The robot also powers itself, using two square meters of solar panels.
MIT, which noted that the robot should be able to work continuously for weeks, reported that during the cleanup of the Gulf oil spill, more than 800 skimmers were deployed, but only 3% of the surface oil was collected.
Last October, MIT scientists were working to develop a robot, called the Affective Intelligent Driving Agent (AIDA), that would sit inside motor vehicles . The system was designed to change the way people interact with their vehicles, helping them avoid traffic jams and find the cheapest gas along their route.
And last year, an MIT spinoff, Boston Dynamics, said it had started work on a four-wheeled robot that will be able to jump over obstacles and aid military troops in combat. Called the Precision Urban Hopper, the machine is being built for Sandia National Laboratories.


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The Oley Valley is rich in history. Our gallery specializes in period Americana and reflects Pennsylvania German taste in color, design, and craftsmanship. The Gallery space is housed within a restored carriage house on the grounds of an 18th C ironmaster's site, " Oley Forge," located on the banks of the Manatawny Creek.
The shop is currently opened by appointment . . . and a call ahead is always suggested. You may also plan to visit us at some of our national shows, or you may wish to view our current selections on our website for a taste of what we specialize in, " Americana at Its Best!"
Raccoon Creek Antiques has been in business for over 20 years.
Owners George R. Allen and Gordon L. Wyckoff were both antique dealers before they founded Raccoon Creek Antiques, LLC. They have been business partners for the past 12 years.
Gordon started in 1974, with a shop in Mullica Hill, New Jersey, and an active show calendar as well. George, who has been purchasing antiques since 1969, opened Raccoon Creek Antiques in Bridgeport, N.J., in 1986. Since joining forces, their business has grown nationally through the inclusion of many national shows.
They have recently moved their business location to the Oley Valley in Pennsylvania and continue to operate a shop by appointment, while also participating in their show schedule. They have also presented guest lectures at the college level, and have appeared on national television. . .including two series for HGTV. Recently they have been included and published in Millers' Price Guide, American Redware and Stoneware Sections, and they are currently working on sections for Folk Art and Textiles.
George and Gordon are also members of:


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The Unplugged Acoustic Simulator transforms an electric guitar to sound like an acoustic guitar, and includes built-in Lexicon Hall reverb to add fullness and presence to the acoustic guitar sound.
Salt Lake City, UT (September 10, 2012) – Harman's DigiTech is celebrating "Stomp-tember 2012" with the release of its new Unplugged Acoustic Simulator for the iStomp downloadable stompbox. The Unplugged Acoustic Simulator transforms an electric guitar to sound like an acoustic guitar, and includes built-in Lexicon Hall reverb to add fullness and presence to the acoustic guitar sound.
The Unplugged Acoustic Simulator uses proprietary Harman-developed DSP algorithms to analyze and process the input from an electric guitar and transform it into the sonic signature of an acoustic guitar, with all of its distinctive acoustic timbres, harmonic complexity and dynamic responsiveness. The acoustic ambience can be further enhanced by dialing in the e-pedal's Lexicon Hall reverb – the classic lush, expansive reverb heard on thousands of recordings. Adding to its sonic spaciousness, the Unplugged Acoustic Simulator features true stereo inputs and outputs. Its controls include LOW EQ, HIGH EQ, REVERB (reverb level) and LEVEL (effect level).
The DigiTech iStomp is an entirely new concept in guitar stompboxes that allows musicians to turn the iStomp into any pedal in the Stomp Shop online pedal store. Offering almost limitless sonic possibilities, the iStomp connects to an Apple iOS device where musicians can use the Stomp Shop app to load it with the e-pedal of their choice. The Stomp Shop is a free app and comes with two of the most popular requested pedals, the DigiTech Total Recall Delay and the DigiTech Redline Overdrive. It gives access to more than 30 additional pedals that musicians can browse, try out and purchase, with more pedals added every month.
The DigiTech Unplugged Acoustic Simulator e-pedal will be available in September 2012 at an introductory price of $0.99. This introductory price will run through September 31, 2012. After the introductory period the price will change to $7.99.
The DigiTech iStomp is currently available at $229.95 MSRP.
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text: The VIU Learning Technology Orientation for Students webinar will briefly introduce the video conferencing tool VIUOnline Rooms (powered by Zoom). Participants will see where and how to access VIULearn, VIUTube and VIUBlogs. Within VIULearn, participants will learn how to register for the self-paced VIULearn Student Orientation 2022-2023 course, which they will be able to access for up to a year. They can explore that course at their own pace to learn how to navigate VIULearn and practice various tasks and activities that they might be asked to complete in their courses. They will also learn how to adjust their VIULearn settings and notifications for the best online experience. There will be some time at the end of the orientation to directly address some participant questions.